If the alleged assaults occurred away from a military base, the victims would get input into whether their cases are prosecuted in military or civilian courts, affording them greater control over how those cases are handled.

With the most controversial measure of last week's bill stricken—the part where commanders could no longer help decide whether their subordinates should be prosecuted— the bill passed the Senate easily. 97-0 easily.

"Unanimous agreement in the U.S. Senate is pretty rare," Senator Claire McCaskill (D., MO.), who co-wrote the bill, said in a statement Monday night. "But rarer still is the kind of sweeping, historic change we've achieved over the past year in the military justice system."

And while the bill still has to pass the House to become law, with those kinds of numbers in the Senate, things are looking pretty good. Claire Underwood would be thrilled, if she were a real person. (But since she's not, we'll just do the job twice over for her.)